Podcasting
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Slurping podcasts for research and preservation with yt-dlp
My comedy archive includes hundreds of podcasts stretching back to the medium’s infancy, and I continue to actively preserve dozens of shows each week. I also routinely listen to and transcribe podcasts in the course of my research, so I’m constantly saving and organising local copies of audio files. Since podcasting is haphazardly elegantly built… Continue reading
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Fan-led preservation practices: remastering The Ricky Gervais Show
“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” John Gilmore I’m part of a small but enduring community of online weirdos centred around The Ricky Gervais Show, a comedy programme hosted by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and producer Karl Pilkington on and off between 2001 and 2010. The show is now mostly forgotten,… Continue reading